[Eug-lug] OT -- Forge

[Ben Barrett]

Thanks Allen -- looks like a mint-condition anvil there :)
I've been smithing with friends almost weekly for about
14 months, and since I got my first home I've been
tooling up my own shop with my increased free time.

I'm interested in casting too -- found this site inspiring:
http://backyardmetalcasting.com/

There are a ton of great smithing sites, from anvilfire
and on... maybe I'll have some public pix up someday,
for now just these older ones:
http://flickr.com/photos/benborg/tags/blacksmithing/

Lately I've just been cutting, bending, welding, and grinding
at home, but I've just about got my forge materials together,
I am going to purchase a well-tuned venturi burner from a pro,
and experiment with making my own burner later on.

cheers to the DIY'ers!!  Open source the hardware tech :)

ben


On 2/22/07, Allen Brown <abrown at peak.org> wrote:
>
> Ben Barrett wrote:
> > But I don't want any waste heat... I'd like to minimize the "waste" by
> > putting it
> > into a heat pump... another input will be my propane forge, which is
> almost
> > built.
> >
> > Cars:  just a temporary hang-up, I suppose... being out of regular work
> has
> > begun to change my attitudes, I fear in a somewhat back-stepping way.
> > By now I should be buying & selling other companies for breakfast and
> > buying "overcompensators" (high-end cars) for desert :)
> >
> > oh well, who wants to hire a fool like me anyway, huh ;)
> >
> > ben
>
> What will you do with your forge?  Blacksmith?
> http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/HotMetal/index.html
>
> I've done some blacksmith, but I do more casting ... foundry.
> --
> Allen Brown  abrown at peak.org  http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/
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